Press and essays

Regine ‘Dance of Urgency. Political Power on the Dance Floor’ 13 August 2019

Malibongwe Tyilo ‘The tricolour bag that came to represent migration’ Maverick Life 10 August 2019

Rick de la Ray ‘Material Representation’ July 2019 The Lake magazine #27 p16-21

John Claude ‘Cross the River in a Crowd’ July 2019 Africa is Now magazine

Ashraf Jamal ‘Joint-Solo: Dan Halter and Chris Soal at Whatiftheworld’ 8 July 2019, Artthrob

Mingwei Huang ‘The foreign and familiar: Reading the China bag in South Africa’ 22 February 2019  https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1367877919831015

Christopher DeWolf ‘Ghana must go: The surprising global journey of Hong Kong’s red-white-blue bag’ 21 February 2019 Zolima City Magazine https://zolimacitymag.com/ghana-must-go-the-surprising-global-journey-of-hong-kongs-red-white-blue-bag/

Emilie Gambade ‘Cape Town Art Fair – The Unavoidables’ 19 February 2019 Daily Maverick https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2019-02-19-cape-town-art-fair-the-unavoidables/

Juan Fernández ‘Beyond the Encounter, Notes on «Crossing Night / Hacer Noche». Contemporary Art of South Africa in Oaxaca, México’ 1 February 2019 https://terremoto.mx/mas-alla-del-encuentro-apuntes-sobre-crossing-night-hacer-noche-arte-contemporaneo-del-sur-de-africa-en-oaxaca-mexico/

Sean O’Toole ‘Mexico’s first-ever showcase of South African art’ February 2019 Art Africa Magazine https://artafricamagazine.org/mexicos-first-ever-showcase-south-african-art-afro-hacer-noche-crossing-night/

Matthew J. Palm ‘In Baggage Claims, artwork takes an emotional journey’ 27 October 2017 https://www.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment/arts-and-theater/the-artistic-type/os-et-baggage-claims-oma-20171027-story.html

Lucienne Bestall  ‘Repetition fatigue: Dan Halter’s Patience Can Cook a Stone‘ 5 April 2018 Artthrob https://artthrob.co.za/2018/04/05/repetition-fatigue-dan-halters-patience-can-cook-a-stone/

Artthrob ‘Dan Halter at WHATIFTHEWORLD’ 16 February 2018 https://artthrob.co.za/2018/02/16/dan-halter-at-whatiftheworld/

Tom Patterson ‘Traveling light or heavy: Baggage provides a timely theme for a traveling group show at the Weatherspoon Art Museum’ 11 February 2018 Journalnow https://www.journalnow.com/visual_arts/traveling-light-or-heavy-baggage-provides-a-timely-theme-for/article_69eb16dc-c45b-57f8-8f03-cfbb4f041f29.html

Jennifer Bringle ‘Weatherspoon Art Museum exhibit addresses personal, political and social baggage’ 1 February 2018 Greensboro https://www.greensboro.com/go_triad/weatherspoon-art-museum-exhibit-address-personal-political-and-social-baggage/article_c463bce9-6308-5fb2-a4a7-fa1c1dd3910c.html

Bo Borg ‘Dan Halter och det postkoloniala arvet’ 19 December 2017 Omkonst http://omkonst.se/17-halter-dan.shtml 

Roland Svensson ‘Zimbabviske konstnären Dan Halter använder sig bland annat av traditionella afrikanska hantverkstekniker när han berättar sina historier. Nationella gränser och identitet är ämnen som behandlas i hans utställning på Skövde konstmuseum’ 13 December 2017 Skaraborgs Allehanda

‘Invogue História’ December 2017 http://danhalter.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/miolo_vogue_44.pdf Vogue Portugal p44

http://avenirmagazine.art/review/1-54-art-fair-london

Caroline Elbaor ‘5 works to get excited about at this year’s 1:54 Contemporary African Art fair in London’ 6 October 2017 artnet https://news.artnet.com/art-world/keep-your-eye-on-these-5-artists-from-londons-154-art-fair-1109039

‘Chinafrica’ Art Africa Magazine no. 08 http://artafricamagazine.org/chinafrica/?mc_cid=5a1b0018c1&mc_eid=235eb58753 

Andrew J. Hennlich After the Thrill is Gone September 8th-October 28th 2016 http://danhalter.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/After-the-Thrill-is-Gone.pdf Western Michigan University p1-114

Lloyd Pollak ‘Fissures: Negatives space at WHATIFTHEWORLD’ 17 January 2017 Artthrob http://artthrob.co.za/2017/01/17/fissures-negative-space-at-whatiftheworld/ 

Regine ‘Energy Flash: The Rave Movement’ 26 August 2016 http://we-make-money-not-art.com/energy-flash-the-rave-movement/

Liese Van Der Watt Checkered History of Checks, Contemporary African artists speak about plaid September/ October 2016 http://danhalter.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Ghana-must-go.pdf Selvedge (No.72)

Josh Hockensmith Artists’ Books and Africa, Smithsonian National Museum of African Art 2017 http://danhalter.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Exhibition-review-by-Josh-Hockensmith-in-African-arts-summer-2017.pdf p90-92

M.C. Stevens ‘Armory show 2016 WHATIFTHEWORLD’ 2016 Arcade project zine http://www.arcadeprojectzine.com/art/armory-show-2016-whatiftheworld-dan-halter-by-m-c-stevens/

Jill Spalding ‘Armory Week 2016’ 9 March 2016 Studio international http://www.studiointernational.com/index.php/armory-show-2016-review-new-york

Isaac Kaplan ‘Why the ”African perspective” section is the number one reason to visit the Armory show’  5 March 2016 Artsy https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-why-the-african-perspectives-section-is-the-number-one-reason-to-visit-the-armory-show

Margaux Donnelier ‘The Armory show in New York – An African perspective’ 4 March 2016 Candid magazine http://www.candidmagazine.com/the-armoury-show-in-new-york/

Miss Rosen ‘The Armory show, Focus: African perspective’ 4 March 2016 Craveonline http://www.craveonline.com/site/961701-armory-show-focus-african-perspectives?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=armory-show-focus-african-perspectives

Joel Kuennen ‘Dispatches from immersion: it’s renegade!’ 2 March 2016 Artslant https://www.artslant.com/ny/articles/show/45387-dispatches-from-immersion-its-renegade

Ken Johnson ‘What Not to Miss at The Armory Show at the Piers’ 3 March 2016 New York Times https://wes.com/2016/03/04/arts/design/what-not-to-miss-at-the-armory-show-at-the-piers.html?_r=2ww.nytim 

Aïcha Diallo ‘The Warp and Weft of Experience’ 1 March 2016 Contemporaryand http://www.contemporaryand.com/magazines/the-warp-and-weft-of-experience/

Beckett Mufson ‘8 African Artists to Know at The Armory Show’ 4 March 2016 Vice https://www.vice.com/en_au/article/gvw3k9/8-african-artists-armory-show

Benjamin Sutton ‘Finding Jesus, “YOUR MOM,” and Other Surprises at the 2016 Armory Show’ 2 March 2016 Hyperallergic http://hyperallergic.com/280124/finding-jesus-your-mom-and-other-surprises-at-the-2016-armory-show/

Ryan Steadman ‘The Armory Show Unveils The Dawn of a New Era for African Art’ 3 February 2016  Observer http://observer.com/2016/03/the-armory-show-unveils-the-dawn-of-a-new-era-for-african-art/

Molly Gottschalk ’10 Emerging Artists to Watch at The Armory Show’ 3 March 2016 Artsy https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-10-emerging-artists-to-watch-at-the-armory-show

Michael Slenske ‘The Armory Show: The Wallpaper picks from the New York art fair’ 4 March 2016 Wallpaper Magazine https://www.wallpaper.com/art/highlights-from-the-armory-show2016–art-fair-nyc

Hadani Ditmars ‘Total chaos: a selection if Bob Rennie’s art cache goes on display in Vancouver’ 1 March 2016 Wallpaper Magazine https://www.wallpaper.com/art/chaos-at-rennie-gallery-as-bob-rennies-private-collection-goes-on-display

Modern Painters 2016 http://danhalter.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/041_MPMAR16.pdf

Chad Rossouw ‘The map is Not The Territory’ 16 February 2016 Artthrob http://artthrob.co.za/2016/02/16/the-map-is-not-the-territory/

Rachel Ogbu http://yafri.ca/exhibition-patterns-of-migration-by-dan-halter/ 2015

Matthew Partridge ‘Maps of Madness’ Sunday Times, 3 May 2015 p7

Matthew Blackman ‘Memory of Things Present’ 21 April 2015 Artthrob http://artthrob.co.za/2015/04/21/the-memory-of-things-present/

https://artthrob.co.za/2015/05/29/dan-halter-immigration-and-the-problematic-of-representation/

Matthew Blackman ‘The Original is Unfaithful to the Translation’  2015 press release

https://artthrob.co.za/2015/02/26/interview-with-an-artwork-all-of-a-sardine/

Andrew J. Hennlich ‘Crafting Experience in the work of Dan Halter’  2015 Making Futures Journal Vol 3 ISSN 2042-1664

Jessica Hemmings ‘Cultural Threads’ 2015 p95-98 ISBN 978-1-4725-3093-6

Valentina Rojas Loa ‘Space Invaders’ report on 9 Urban Biotopes residency in Turin, Italy 2014 http://www.urbandialogues.de/uploads/pdf/biotopes/9UBePublicationflat.pdf

João Laia ‘Untitled (Zimbabwean Queen of Rave) 2005’ Unerasable Memories – VideoBrasil 2014 p172-183 ISBN 978-85-7995-142-8

Dan Halter ‘Capacete Residency’ In Residency, 30 Years VideoBrasil 2014 p86-87 ISBN 978-85-7995-074-2

Lucinda Jolly ‘Engaging with space’ Cape Times 22 September 2014 p10

Lyn Holm ‘Mealie Pip (2008)’ Art Times August 2014 p19

Michael Smith ‘An interview with Dan Halter’ 2013 http://www.artthrob.co.za/Reviews/Michael_Smith_reviews_An_interview_with_Dan_Halter _by_Dan_Halter_at_Sandton_Convention_Centre.aspx

Karen E. Milbourne ‘Earth Matters’ 2013 p179-181 Smithsonian ISBN 978-1-58093-370-4

Ruth Simbao ‘Making Way’ 2013

Moira Jeffrey and Andy Fairgrieve ‘Artists at Glenfiddich’ catalogue 2010

Katharine Jacobs ‘The match stick, the suitcase and the weaver: nervous condtions in Dan Halter’s The Truth Lies Here, Dan Halter Selected Works 2005-2012′

Jennifer Lange ‘Beitbridge Moonwalk, 2010’ www.wexarts.org/fv/pdfs/Box_July_12.pdf

Melvyn Minnaar ‘Halter se kuns strek verby die oppervlak’ Die Burger, 7 April 2012 p12

Andrew Lamprecht ‘Carry-all becomes catch-all’ Mail and Guardian, 16 March 2012 p10

Andrew Hennlich ‘When the Belly Is Full the Brain Starts to Think: Craft and Criticism in the Work of Daniel Halter’, esse arts + opinions Winter 12 Reskilling 74, 2012 p41 article scan

German press about NKV show:
Informationsdienst Kunst / Neues aus den Kunstvereinen / Nr. 489, 27 Oktober 2011
Wiesbadener Kurier, Wiesbadener Tagblatt, 11 November 2011
Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, 27 November 2011

17th Panoramas Do Sul / VideoBrasil  catalogue, 2011 p98 ISBN 978-85-7995-022-3

Amy Halliday ‘Zigzagging Aesthetics’ in ‘Propaganda by Monuments’ catalogue, Cairo, Egypt, p16 2011

O2 VideoAct (International Videoart Biennial) catalogue, Hotel Amister Barcelona, Spain, May 2011 p73

Matthew Partridge ‘Context woven into a history of dislocation’ Mail and Guardian, 12 November 2010 p10

http://danhalter.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Lloyd_Pollak_Double_Entry_artthrob_2010.pdf

Mike Collins ‘It’s a wrap as immigrants inspire Dan’s work!’ Northern Scot, 1 October 2010 p29

Susan Mansfield ‘Art in the Bag’ The Scotsman, 28 September 2010 p40

Loyiso Mpalantshane ”Woodstock artist excited about Glenfiddich residency’ Southern Suburbs Tatler, 22 July 2010 p7

Lisa Witepski ‘From Z(imbabwe) to A(rt)’ The Blue Train, July 2010 p48

https://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/art79717

Dak’Art 2010 9th Biennial of Contemporary African Art catalogue, Dakar, Senegal p56

Spier Contemporary 2010 catalogue p98 ISBN 978-0-620-46056-9

Sue Williamson ‘South Afican Art Now’ 2009 p164 ISBN 978-0-06-134351-3

Michael Smith ‘Finding the us in them’ Mail and Guardian 13 September 2009 p8

Stephen Finn ‘Dystopia: A review’ de arte no 80 2009 ISSN 0004-3389 p57

Matthew Partridge Review, Art South Africa, Vol. 07 Issue 03, Summer 2009 p90

Ralph Borland ‘Multiplication’ for VideoBrasil Dossier www2.sescsp.org.br/sesc/videobrasil/site/dossier042/ensaio_en.asp

commented bio VideoBrasil Dossier www2.sescsp.org.br/sesc/videobrasil/site/dossier042/bio_en.asp

interview VideoBrasil Dossier www2.sescsp.org.br/sesc/videobrasil/site/dossier042/ensaio_en.asp

Tom Greenwood ‘Interview with artist Dan Halter’, pt. 1’ 17 December 2009 www.basenow.net/2009/12/17/interview-with-artist-dan-halter-pt-1/

Geoff Cook ‘Interview with artist Dan Halter’, pt. 2’ 25 December 2009 www.basenow.net/2009/12/25/interview-with-artist-dan-halter-pt-2/

Melvyn Minnaar ‘Woodstock’s new art hub hums’ Cape Times, 23 June 2008 p12

Robert Sloon ‘Power? Please. Power Play at the Goodman Cape’ artheat.blogspot.com/2008/06/power-please-power-play-at-goodman-cape.html

Veronica Wilkinson ‘Film, photos and performance’ Sunday Argus, 10 June 2008 p10

Matthew Partridge ‘MTN New Contemporaries’ Review, Art South Africa, vol. 07 Issue 01 Spring 2008 p90

Miles Keylock ‘Intelligent eye candy’ The Mail and Guardian, 18 April 2008 p8

Gwen Gill ‘Red dots and jackets of note hit Joburg Art Fair’ The Sunday Times, 16 March 2008 p24

Bettina Malcomess ‘Fabrication’ Never say Never catalogue, February 2008 p26 ISBN 88-86587-00-7

Francesco Tedeschi ‘Dan Halter’s works: images, maps and transactions’ Never say Never catalogue, February 2008 p12 ISBN 88-86587-00-7

16th Festival International De Arte Electronica / VideoBrasil catalogue 2007 p211 ISBN 978-85-99277-04-1

Veronica Wilkinson ‘Choice selection of art at work’ Sunday Argus, 5 August 2007 p9

Robert Sloon ‘Strange Bedfellows. 3C at AVA’ artheat blog, 3 August 2007 http://artheat.blogspot.com

Sue Williamson ‘ARTBIO’ Artthrob, July 2007 www.artthrob.co.za/07jul/artbio.html

Spier Contemporary 2007 catalogue p104

Janine Stephen ‘Impish Intelligence that packs a punch’ Business Day, June 2007 p12

Ruth Sacks ‘THE PROJECT’ (l’ll stop believing in you if you stop believing in me) Artthrob, June 2007 www.artthrob.co.za/07jun/documenta.html

Miles Keylock ‘The great X-Cape’ The Mail and Guardian, 5 April 2007 p3

Sue Williamson ‘2006 in Review, Best Newcomer in 2006’
Linda Stupart ‘2006 in Review, The three best shows in Cape Town 2006’ Artthrob, 2 February 2007 www.artthrob.co.za/07feb/reviews/bestof.html

Linda Stupart Review, Art South Africa, Vol. 05 Issue 02, Summer 2006 p84

Raphael Chikukwa News: Harare, Contemporary, Issue 88, December 2006 p19

Melvyn Minnaar ‘Melancholy and loss mark debut solo show’ Cape Times, 25 September 2006 p11

Theo Kleynhans ‘Wekroep wat media oortref’ Die Burger, 19 September 2006 p10

Sue Williamson ‘Sue Williamson’s Diary’ Artthrob, 6 September 2006 www.artthrob.co.za/06nov/diary.html

Kiles Keylock ‘The agony and the ecstasy’ The Mail and Guardian, 1 September 2006 p10

Linda Stupart ‘Second to None’ at the South African National Gallery, Artthrob, 6 July 2006 www.artthrob.co.za/06july/reviews/sang.html

Khwezi Gule ‘Know Thy Enemy Know Thy Self’ Take Me To Your Leader catalogue, September 2006 p27

Andrew Lamprecht ‘Woven Into The Stuff of Life’ Take Me To Your Leader catalogue, September 2006 p21

Ed Young ‘Pefection’ Take Me To Your Leader catalogue, September 2006 p13

Kathryn Smith Extract from ‘Culture Games’ Take Me To Your Leader catalogue, September 2006 p9

Suzy Bell ‘Art award shows vision and imagination’ Cape Times, 20 September 2005 p2